The 1960’s brought a new reality to the world: space travel. The space race between the United States and Russia had the public absolutely fascinated with everything extra terrestrial. The theme of science fiction was bursting at the seams with new books and tv shows like the Jetsons and Star Trek. Soon a common visual style was alive and well within the design community: futurism.
Never before seen concepts were pushing the module of fashion- reflective silvers, mini skirts, and new abstract shapes to contrast the human body. This movement dominated pop culture in the 1960s. People's minds were opening up about what the future of earth could hold. In doing so. they inadvertently predicted it. Such an influential moment in fashion didn’t just disappear from the limelight, in fact it's one of the only parts of fashion that has largely stayed the same throughout the years. Designers of the past made clothing so influential that they actually made the future theirs.
When you think of alien fashion and old science fiction movies, there is that ever present metal clothing. This has become so prominent in today's fashion with different rave cultures as well as common people recreating this old style. The idea of what is a garment was expanded upon with new use of shapes and materials like plastic, to create a revolutionary fit that didn’t work to accentuate the body, but instead to warp it. Designers like Dom Sebastian picked up on this and implemented it into high fashion.
The science fiction and space race era of the 1960’s left a mark on fashion forever. It broke ground for the future of innovation and surrealist fashion.
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